Sonoco

Not to be confused with Sunoco, a petroleum products company.
Sonoco Products Company
Company typePublic
NYSE: SON
S&P 400 Component
IndustryPackaging
Founded1899
FounderMajor James Lide Coker
Headquarters
Hartsville, South Carolina
,
United States
Key people
Howard Coker (CEO)
RevenueDecrease US$5.237 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1]
Decrease US$255.592 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1]
Decrease US$207.241 Million (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1]
Total assetsIncrease US$5.277 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1]
Total equityIncrease US$1.910 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020)[1]
Number of employees
21,000[2] (2017)
Websitewww.sonoco.com

Sonoco Products Company is an American provider of diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services and the world's largest producer of composite cans, tubes, and cores. The company was founded in 1889 as Southern Novelty Company with annualized net sales of approximately $7.3 billion. Sonoco has 19,900 employees in more than 335 operations in 33 countries, serving more than 85 nations.[3] The company is headquartered in Hartsville, South Carolina, and is South Carolina's largest corporation in terms of sales.[4]

Sonoco is a member of the New York Stock Exchange Century Index and the S&P 400.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Sonoco 2021 Annual Report". sonoco.com. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Sonoco Products". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  3. ^ "SON Profile - Sonoco Products Company Stock - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
  4. ^ Spechko, Victoria (22 February 2012). "Sonoco honored as SC's largest corporation in terms of sales". WPDE.